Saturday, 7:25pm, BBC1 Lorraine Kelly and Rob Beckett preside as two about-to-get-married couples and their families compete for prizes and to have their wedding broadcast to the nation on primetime BBC. It’s not a bad idea, weddings feel like an untapped entertainment market in the UK, although whether this will successfully capture the feel good… Read More »
Saturdays, 6pm, BBC1 New Ore Oduba physical challenge show. Celebrities take on wacky and muddy obstacle course races whilst members of the public try and predict the winners for big prizes. How wacky and large scale remains to be seen – looks like they’re pre-records if the trailer is anything to go by so anything… Read More »
Saturday, 8pm, Channel 4 Now this is interesting, it certainly feels rather out of place for a Saturday night on Channel 4. And the set looks horrifically garish. And I hate the logo and typeface. But! I like Alan Carr and I like The Price is Right so tonight will be interesting. Clearly they won’t… Read More »
Saturday, 7pm, ITV When I first heard about this I thought “that sounds compellingly awful”. I think it’s the title more than anything else, which evokes Butlins more than primetime ITV. But here we are. What we have is sort of Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes but in reverse – celeb dresses up as iconic… Read More »
Netflix, from December 15th New series of Sylvester Stallone and Netflix’s very own large-scale obstacle course show where competitors from six countries, this time the US, Spain, France, Italy, China and India compete to tame the four stages of The Beast, a huge obstacle course built in California. We enjoyed series one up to a… Read More »
Well this almost didn’t happen. As you may have been aware, there was a lot of snow about on Sunday, and whilst I was quite fortunate in that trains to and from Cambridge weren’t affected too badly, loads of production staff (and Phillip Schofield!) were delayed by several hours (six, in the floor manager’s case).… Read More »